your podcasts. the news continues with jake tapper and cnn tonight. welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. tonight with exactly three weeks until the critical midterm elections here in the united states, candidates across the country in key races are increasingly taking extremism to the extreme. but what exactly is the definition of extremism? obviously that depends on who you ask. in a new ad airing in pennsylvania, republican u.s. senate candidate dr. mehmet oz paints himself as a middle-of the-road type of guy. his opponent fetterman is extreme for supporting criminal justice reform and supporting traditional democratic economic plans. guys like john fetterman take everything to the extreme. extremism on both sides makes things worse. we need balance, less extremism in washington. i m sure fetterman would respond that most of the extremism in contemporary american politics is coming from inside dr. oz s own party, but extremism, extremist, that s an insult we r
continue to rise, when inflation is crippling americans wallets. if the choice is between someone who is, quote, unquote, extreme versus the party that has led us to where we are today, that s the choice they re leaving the american public with. democrats say all they did was highlight gibbs views and the republican base embraced him. at the end of the day, are republican voters the ones embracing extremism here? let me be very clear. i lost and i take responsibility for that. the reality of that situation, though, is if the democrats try to pawn that off as, well, we were just highlighting who this guy really is, they re running very different ads today, and the reason why is because they are talking to two different audiences. so i think for a party that